Seventy-one percent of respondents said they expect the use of security analytics to increase over the next year.

The study also found that 56 percent of IT professionals surveyed describe their initial deployment of security analytics as “difficult” or “very difficult” and 65 percent of these individuals cited configuration and required tuning as implementation obstacles.

Respondents also identified the most important problems security analytics platforms must detect with data exfiltration at 50 percent; adversary reconnaissance at 40 percent; and adversary lateral movement and insider threats at 36 percent each.

Half of the respondents named account compromise as the top threat that their security analytics can detect while 48 percent reported privilege escalation and 46 percent cited malware deployment or delivery.

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